Lightning Network Overhaul Could Strengthen Bitcoin Privacy – But Many ‘Ifs’ Remain
Bitcoin developers are exploring Point Timelock Contracts (PTLCs) to improve the privacy of payments on the Lightning Network.
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Bitcoiners Sprint to Improve Lightning Network in 2-Day Virtual Hackathon
Unable to meet in person, developers around the world collaborated by videoconference for a 48-hour stretch to refine Bitcoin’s Lightning...
OKCoin Grants $100,000 to BTCPay Server Toward Its Open-Source Development
Today, San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin announced a $100,000 donation to open-source bitcoin payment processor project BTCPay Server. The funding...
Presenting Bitcoin’s Best During the Halving
The Bitcoin mining subsidy halving is a once-every-210,000-blocks event during which attention from all over the world is pointed at...
StartUp News: ConsenSys Announces Full Acquisition Of Fluidity, A P2P Trading Firm
ConsenSys announces full acquisition of Brooklyn-based Fluidity, the developer of AirSwap, in what will see the Ethereum-backed software company acquire...
One Among Major Ethereum [ETH] Miners OKEx Pool Pledges Support For Ethereum 2.0
OKEx Pool, one of the major miners for five proof-of-work cryptocurrencies, is ready for the shift to Ethereum 2.0. The...
“Concerned” by Chinese influence, ICON founder reveals South Korea is mulling a $400 million blockchain fund
South Korea’s fascination with blockchain and cryptocurrency seemingly grows stronger each day. The country is among the few global powers...
Ethereum Classic To Become Fully Compatible With Ethereum After Upcoming Phoenix Hard Fork
Five months after the successful completion of the “Agharta” hard fork at block 9,573,000, the Ethereum Classic (ETC) Core developers...
Blockchain infrastructure platform Blockdaemon raises $5.5M
Blockdaemon, a blockchain infrastructure platform for node management serving institutions and developers, today announced a strategic funding round of $5.5...
BAT developer reveals why the project chose Ethereum over Bitcoin
Basic Attention Token (BAT), the cryptocurrency powering the wildly popular Brave browser, was initially issued on Bitcoin before switching to...
